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Local Wedding Planner Gets the Details Just Right (East Aurora Advertiser) - Every couple wants their wedding to be memorable for all the right reasons, yet for every big day that appears to go off with a hitch, there are stories about a cake toppling over, a veil catching fire, a camera failure. And that’s just in this writer’s own family!

Review: Stunning 'Mermaid' flounders at times in S.F. (San Jose Mercury News) - One of ballet's most difficult challenges is not finding new movement vocabulary — it has plenty of that — but modernizing fairy tales.

Stage review: Over-the-top ?Wedding Singer? not over soon enough (Reading Eagle) - With everything the creators of the stage production of "The Wedding Singer" threw into the mix, there was one thing missing: Robbie Hart's mullet.

Review: Stunning 'Mermaid' flounders at times in S.F. (Oakland Tribune) - One of ballet's most difficult challenges is not finding new movement vocabulary — it has plenty of that — but modernizing fairy tales. This is a tough task when the demons of the psyche are real, but water sprites, evil wizards and strange witches are no more than throwbacks to a

Review: Underwood soars above DCU crowd (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) - WORCESTER - A flying truck, a virtual duet with Randy Travis and more costume changes than you can count. No this is not what Obama promised the Republicans if they voted for his health care package but what Carrie Underwood delivered to the sold-out crowd last night at the DCU Center.

Dance review: 'Little Mermaid' casts spell (San Francisco Chronicle) - With the American premiere of John Neumeier's ambitious "Little Mermaid" Saturday evening, the San Francisco Ballet has acquired its first sampling of contemporary European dance drama, and it doesn't look like much of anything that Artistic Director Helgi...

Review: Players Excel in "The Lion in Winter" (East Aurora Advertiser) - “The Lion in Winter,” the Aurora Players’ current production, follows the malicious power plays of the British royal family in 1183. As Christmas approaches, Henry II invites his wife, Eleanor of Aquitane, out of exile and back to the chilled bosom of their family where duplicity reigns. Three sons vie for their parents’ affection, but most of all, for the keys to the kingdom as the aging Henry ...

Book Review: The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb (seattlepi.com) - Since the mid and late 1990s, I'd heard of Robin Hobb. Friends had read and enjoyed The Farseer Trilogy, which evidently follows the life of a character named Fitz, but somehow I just haven't managed to read anything by her until now. That brings me to today and reading Hobb's book The Dragon Keeper ...

Weekend Box Office Review: Alice Three-peats, Diary of A Wimpy Kid and The Bounty Hunter Open Well (HuffingtonPost.com via Yahoo! News) - Read Scott Mendelson's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com

Rave Review weighs in on Angelika’s latest offerings (Plano Courier) - Consider it another winner for Director Jason Reitman – “Up in the Air” is a quirky, humorous film with a message. No wonder there have been multiple wins and multiple nominations for both movie and actors – finally, a different story that hasn’t been told before.